So, your blog is starting to get some serious traffic and the costs of maintaining the blog, including your time, is increasing, or perhaps, you want to make your blog your job and therefore, you are now looking for ways to earn money from your blog. Here is a list of 10 ways to earn money from your blog:

1. Advertising

Selling advertising space on a blog is probably the most common form of earning money from a blog and you’ve probably seen it countless amount of times.

You could sell text, banner and / or overlay popup ads and on two different basis: cost-per-click (CPC) and cost per mille (CPM); where per mille means per thousand. …

Apache Tomcat is an open source web server and servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation that allows you to run Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages based web applications.

Install Apache Tomcat 7

We will first do a package repository update:

sudo apt-get update

Next, we will install Apache Tomcat 7:

sudo apt-get install tomcat7 tomcat7-docs tomcat7-admin tomcat7-examples

Apache Tomcat 7 is now installed. You can confirm Apach Tomcat is working by going to port 8080.

http://<ip address>:8080

Remember to replace <ip address> with your server’s IP address.

You should see a large heading title “It works !” followed by more generic information.

To run Java application, you will need to install the Java Development Kit (JDK). …

Twitter is a great way for businesses to communicate with their current customers and to reach new customers. However, it’s not as easy as posting a sentence and that’s it. Here are 10 common Twitter mistakes I see businesses make:

1. Tweeting Too Little or Often

The number of times you tweet should be directly related to your audience. If we look at Warren Buffett‘s Twitter account, we can see that he has over a million followers but posts every now and then. Whereas, Kim Kardashian posts multiple times of day. It speaks to their audience and what their audience is after.

So, when a social media company says you should post X amount of times per day, I say no. …

Apache Cordova is a top level project of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). What Apache Cordova does is, it allows you to build native mobile apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. This tutorial is going to show you how-to install Apache Cordova’s command-line interface (CLI). The CLI allows you to create new apps, build apps on different platforms, and run the apps on real devices or within emulators.

Before we can install the Cordova CLI, we will need to install the prerequisites: NodeJS, NPM and Git. So let’s get started!

Installing NodeJS

Run the following command to install NodeJS:

sudo apt-get install…

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to setup a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate on Ubuntu 16.04 and Apache web server.

Install Certbot

Firstly, we will install Certbot, which is an easy-to-use automatic client that fetches and deploys Let’s Encrypt SSL/TLS certificates for your webserver.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-certbot-apache

That’s it, you can now go to the next step, which is installing your Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate!

Install Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificates

sudo certbot --apache -d yourdomain.com

Replace yourdomain.com with the domain name you’d like the Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate for.

You can install multiple Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates by using -d domainname.com, …

Checklist for pre-launching websites or websites that are already live.

Frontend Checklist for Websites project page may be found here.

Performance

General

• HTTP/2 is being used
• CDN is used for assets
• CDN is used for static resources
• Cookie-less domain used for static files
• DNS prefetching is used
• <link rel="preload" as="script">
• <link rel="dns-prefetch">

Resources

• JavaScript files combined into one file
• JavaScript is minified
• JavaScript is compressed
• No inline JavaScript
• CSS files combined into one file
• CSS is minified
• CSS is compressed
• CSS has no use of @import
• No inline CSS
• HTML is minified
• Static files are compressed with gzip or brotli
• Static files are server-side…

A quick checklist for web accessibility, which also acts as a great beginners’ guide. Website for the Website Accessibility Checklist may be found here.

Landmarks

<header role="banner">

Typically your website’s header.

<nav role="navigation">

Navigation of your website, which contains navigation links.

<main role="main">

The one area where content is primarily focused.

<article role="article">

One content item. An example is a single blog post in an index.

<aside role="complementary">

Separated content section that supports the main content.

<footer role="contentinfo">

Footer that contains information about the document such as website author, website ownership, copyright information, links to legal documents, etc…

<form role="search">

Give the end user the ability to search your document or website. …